Hello!
Wondered if I could get some advice? Tonight We Fly by The Divine Comedy is 'our' song and OH and I hoped to have it at the end of our registry office ceremony. The original plan was to have an instrumental version but as one doesn't seem to exist we are about to bite the bullet and submit for approval. However, I am a bit scared in case we aren't allowed it, then find the instrumental version and can't use that because the registrar is alerted to the potential controversy....if that makes sense?
We are just having a meal afterwards so no opportunity to use it as a first dance or in any other way. I'm just wondering if anyone has experience of what get's allowed and not?
These are the lyrics- the copyright is probably directly with Neil Hannon and certainly not me.
Tonight we fly
Over the houses, the streets and the trees -
Over the dogs down below;
They'll bark at our shadows
As we float by on the breeze.
Tonight we fly
Over the chimney tops, skylights and slates -
Looking into all your lives
And wondering why
Happiness is so hard to find.
Over the doctor, over the soldier,
Over the farmer, over the poacher,
Over the preacher, over the gambler,
Over the teacher, over the rambler,
Over the lawyer, over the dancer,
Over the voyeur,
Over the builder and the destroyer,
Over the hills and far away!
Tonight we fly
Over the mountains, the beach and the sea
Over the friends that we've known,
And those that we now know
And those who we've yet to meet.
And when we die
Oh, will we be that disappointed or sad?
If heaven doesn't exist,
What will we have missed?
This life is the best we've ever had!
